Quote Originally Posted by pooks
This morning I got back on -- tailbone still hurts. (Maybe that's just from the other day, though, not sure. But I'm suspecting the seat still isn't adjusted well.)
Once that tailbone hurts, Pooks, it can take a while to quit hurting, no matter how much adjusting happens! Before you decide that the seat still isn't right, be sure you don't hurt, even a little, when you get on the bike. Then see how it feels. Now, I don't mean stay off until it quits hurting -- I didn't! That may have prolonged the ouch, but I still wanted to be on my bike...


Quote Originally Posted by pooks
And my thighs were just a little when on the first mile or so, which they hadn't been before, so that made me question all the changes that had been made. But they got a little better and by the time I'd ridden five miles, I wasn't thinking about them --
That's not too surprising -- she changed the way you're using your legs when she changed the position/angle/height of your seat.


Quote Originally Posted by pooks
All I know is that Monday I didn't want to quit riding, even though my tailbone hurt. And today I couldn't force myself to keep going because my tailbone hurts.

And I still feel like I'm having to shove myself too far back on the seat trying to get relief from it.
It COULD be the saddle itself, Pooks. When we got our bikes, they came with "plush comfort saddles" and until I got that danged thing off my bike, I hurt like the ****ens! Things got MUCH better as soon as I put a harder, smaller saddle on my bike (specialized dolce). Now I'm not entirely sure that's the perfect seat for me as I'm riding longer distances, but it sure made a difference compared to the spring-loaded "comfort" thing! (which also squeaked when I rode, and boy, if you don't feel like your butt is big enough to begin with when you're riding a seat that's huge, when it squeaks besides, like you're hurting it or something... Let's just say I probably would have gotten rid of it even if it had been comfortable!)

Karen in Boise